Keeping My Fingers Crossed
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In just about 20 minutes, my students will be filing into a classroom to take the first part of their Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT). Today will be a listening form. Tomorrow, they will take another listening form and one Wednesday they will take the reading form. We'll have the results on Thursday.
I'm a bit nervous for them. Students test every few weeks as classes near completion, but this is different because these are my students (really Uncle Sam's students, right? But, mine, too). I picked this class up on day one and have been with them the entire way. It's been awesome being with them the entire time. I've watched them go from barely being able to make out the strange characters or reproduce the obscure vowel/consonants that appear in Korean to being able to use the language in meaningful and useful ways. It's been a short 63 weeks (if you can ever consider that much time to be short).
The DLPT will be used to determine if they get to graduate or just complete the course. It will also determine if they can actually go on to train into the jobs they've selected. And lastly, and often most importantly, it will determine how much, if any, extra money the military will pay them for being linguists. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for them.
I'm off now to give them one last bit of moral support. I'm going to meet them outside the testing office and wish them well as they go in.
So, for the next few days, keep your fingers crossed for them, please.
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I'm a bit nervous for them. Students test every few weeks as classes near completion, but this is different because these are my students (really Uncle Sam's students, right? But, mine, too). I picked this class up on day one and have been with them the entire way. It's been awesome being with them the entire time. I've watched them go from barely being able to make out the strange characters or reproduce the obscure vowel/consonants that appear in Korean to being able to use the language in meaningful and useful ways. It's been a short 63 weeks (if you can ever consider that much time to be short).
The DLPT will be used to determine if they get to graduate or just complete the course. It will also determine if they can actually go on to train into the jobs they've selected. And lastly, and often most importantly, it will determine how much, if any, extra money the military will pay them for being linguists. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for them.
I'm off now to give them one last bit of moral support. I'm going to meet them outside the testing office and wish them well as they go in.
So, for the next few days, keep your fingers crossed for them, please.
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